Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Question 50: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of all wastes, construction and demolition waste and municipal or household waste going to landfill for each year since 1998 to date in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36490/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Since 1995 national waste statistics in respect of all waste streams have been published at three-yearly intervals by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the most recent National Waste Report being in respect of 2004. Between 2001 and 2004, two interim database reports were published to provide data on municipal waste specifically (i.e. household and commercial waste) for the years 2002 and 2003 respectively. It is my understanding that since the publication of the National Waste Report 2004, a full report will now be published every second year with an interim report (due shortly in respect of 2005) in the intervening year.

The table sets out the position in relation to the amount of the wastes specified in the Question that have been landfilled in each of the respective years since 1998 for which data is available.